Whirlpool bakes a cake with a microwave

How many times have you looked at your little microwave and wished you could do some serious cooking with it? Whirlpool may have come up with a way to make that happen.

The new “Jet Chef” is a Whirlpool appliance that somehow manages to push serious cooking technology into a microwave, with Whirlpool’s spokesperson telling us that it’s able to cook a roast in 20 minutes, and a cake in seven.

It achieves this by taking advantage of a technology that’s able to turn the microwave’s plate into a “virtual frying pan”, heating it up to 210ºC in the space of two minutes and using a 3D air distribution system to cook food evenly.

The flip-side to this is that can defrost food evenly too. It’s your choice.

The Jet Chef also uses sensor technology to measure humidity and heat inside the microwave, a feature that Whirlpool claims makes it harder for the food to overheat. And with a fan-forced air stream, the Jet Chef can also cook quickly, meaning that cake can be baked without needing to switch on an oven.